August Nölck

August Nölck (né August Friedrich Robert Nölck; 9 January 1862 in Lübeck — 12 December 1928 in Dresden, Germany) was a prolific composer, virtuoso cellist, pianist, and music educator of the German School of Romanticism.

Styles

As professor of cello and piano, Nölck composed over three hundred works that included concertos, whims, waltzes, concertina, gavottes, minuets, mazurkas, funeral marches, and the like. However, due to the two World Wars in Germany and political divisions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, only his works produced in Venezuela have been recovered.

Nölck was part of the Dresden School of cello playing, which included Friedrich Wilhelm Grützmacher, who formed a foundation for the modern school of technique represented by Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and others. Nölck's music reflects the Romantic styles of Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn.[1]

There is limited biographical information on this composer.[2]

Family

August Nölck was born to the marriage of Johann Daniel Conrad Nölck and Maria Margaretha Bohnhoff.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ The Salon Music of August Nölck, for Cello and Piano, by William Thomas Walker, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: CVNC (Classical Voice of North Carolina – online journal), March 10, 2013
  2. ↑ Biography, August Nölck, by Paul Desenne (cellist/composer; born 1958)
  3. ↑ Birth Record: August Friedrich Robert Nölck, Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, Family Search